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Gene Expression on relative trends in literary studies over the years, tracked by frequency of key terms, or theory's peaked.

[A]side from Marxism, which peaked in 1988, and social constructionism, which declined starting in 2002, the others began to fall from roughly 1993 to 1998. It is astonishing that such a narrow time frame saw the fall of fashions that varied so much in when they were founded. Marxism, psychoanalysis, and feminism are very old compared to deconstruction or postmodernism, yet it was as though during the 1990s an academia-wide clean-up swept away all the bullshit, no matter how long it had been festering there.

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